For decades, the core of interdisciplinary reflection and political debate has been rethinking the relationship between nature and society.
The increasingly frequent economic crises, the recurrent ‘natural’ disasters, the improving of inequalities and, not least, the pandemic crisis and the outbreak of war in Europe have gradually marked the crisis of modernity and the values that have supported it. This process has difficulty producing concrete results, and however the civil, scientific and institutional communities are particularly sensitive to the need of finding a new form of coexistence with nature – external and with oneself.
Into orthodox thought this need is translated into the ecological transition, with new forms of energy production, innovative materials to build, smart management forms to be applied to various productive and territorial areas; in critical thought, more deeply and with a more complex approach, the interdisciplinary debate is focused on our social and environmental relationships, our way of looking at, representing, producing and reproducing them, desiring not a painless transition but a substantial change in the system.
The mountain is the ideal subject for this reflection. In the first perspective, the mountain has assumed a prominent role, particularly considering at new potential products and recreational practices. In this case, the interdisciplinary debate attempts to overcome the model of local development to stimulate self-governing forms of production and housing. This viewpoint looks at to the future rather than the simple relation between local resources and the requirements of the global market.
The second perspective is more theoretical. In fact, the material reference to the mountains and their tangible experiences is less recurrent, as well as the placement of the experiences on the global scale. In any case, the mountain would be extremely useful in considering the change of the relationship with nature, the restoration of the sense of border, with the exploration for a new sense of life and new values.
The purpose of the session proposal is to grasp the role of mountains in the scientific debate on the new society/nature relationship, in both perspectives just discussed.
Some suggestions (not exhaustive) can be the following:

production and housing innovations
new policies, plans, projects
energy and ecological transition
living and rehabilitate: policies and practices
the role of ecosystem services in the relationship nature-society
English language presentations are accepted

Roberta Gemmiti (1); Ilaria Guadagnoli (1)
(1) Università di Roma “La Sapienza”

 
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